Parade Monitors
Claim one of the about 50 telephone poles on the 1.6 mile parade route to be your spot to:- Encourage participants that are falling behind to speed up & faster participants to slow down. Use telephone poles as the ideal distance between participants.
- Warn participants to stop throwing candy from vehicles. We’ll come up with a way to track three strikes and you’re out.
- Make sure spectators don’t run into the street.
Your Rewards
- If we can work out the details, you get a tee shirt!
- You get to watch the parade with an unobstructed view!
- If we can work out the details, you chose a well-behaved spectator to receive a gift that the parade volunteers will hand you when they reach you in the last vehicle.
- – include your shirt size
Parade Hightlights
The 60th parade is gearing up to be our largest & best parade yet! We can list a few teasers.- Columbus Police Mounted Unit
- USMC & Toys for Tots – they’ll be collecting school supplies for their kids!
- Junior Grand Marshal picked by Columbus City School’s Area 5 Superintendent!
- Hadler Realty is a Diamond Sponsor!
- Karl Road Baptist Church is giving up prime parade watching real estate & changing the parade route, a little, to ensure a smooth flow & to increase safety!
- Karl Road YMCA will be a sponsor and a participant!
- Collecting items for the ten year time capsule to be opened at the 2034 Unity Festival!
- Connected Network is gearing up to assist with the parade and to be in the parade
- Many more items are in the works but not yet confirmed.